Top Gold Stocks To Keep An Eye On - September 28th

Key Points

• Freeport-McMoRan, Barrick Mining, and Newmont are highlighted as the top gold stocks to watch, showing high trading volumes recently, reflecting both gold price movements and company-specific factors.
• Freeport-McMoRan is a major player in mineral production, specializing in copper, gold, and more, with operations across North America and South America.
• Barrick Gold Corporation and Newmont, both significant producers of gold and copper, have engaged in strategic mergers and joint ventures to enhance their market positions.

Freeport-McMoRan, Barrick Mining, and Newmont are the three Gold stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Gold stocks are shares of publicly traded companies that mine, refine or trade gold, giving investors equity exposure to the metal’s price movements. While their share prices often track changes in gold’s market value, they also reflect company-specific factors such as production costs, operational efficiency and geopolitical risks. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Gold stocks within the last several days.

Freeport-McMoRan (FCX)

Freeport-McMoRan Inc. engages in the mining of mineral properties in North America, South America, and Indonesia. It primarily explores for copper, gold, molybdenum, silver, and other metals. The company's assets include the Grasberg minerals district in Indonesia; Morenci, Bagdad, Safford, Sierrita, and Miami in Arizona; Chino and Tyrone in New Mexico; and Henderson and Climax in Colorado, North America, as well as Cerro Verde in Peru and El Abra in Chile.

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Barrick Mining (B)

Barrick Gold Corporation is a sector-leading gold and copper producer.  Its shares trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol GOLD and on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol ABX.   In January 2019 Barrick merged with Randgold Resources and in July that year it combined its gold mines in Nevada, USA, with those of Newmont Corporation in a joint venture, Nevada Gold Mines, which is majority-owned and operated by Barrick.

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Newmont (NEM)

Newmont Corporation engages in the production and exploration of gold. It also explores for copper, silver, zinc, and lead. The company has operations and/or assets in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Peru, Suriname, Argentina, Chile, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Ecuador, Fiji, and Ghana.

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